The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-02
ANOTHER FALSE CLEW.
A THEORY CONCERNING THE BEAU
LIEU MYSTERY EXPLODED.

| III ranks now, III lnySlSilOuSHeSS, VIII lue
famous Railway case, and like it has fur
nished many clews to be traced, none of
which have thrown a particle of light upon
the remarkable case. In some respects it is
much more deserving of fame than the
much talked of New Jersey crime, for in
following up two of the threads that seemed
TO lead TO a solution two remarkable cases of
circumstantial evidence were developed and
almost proved, only to he shown false when
they seemed most true. Immediately after
the finding of the body rumors that the
dead woman was Mrs. Thompson began
| to circulate and the facts In the case We're
all hunted up. Mrs. Thompson was ac-
counted for up TO the time that the muir
dered woman was supposed to have been
killed. She had left her husband
| about that time and had not been
heard of afterward. Her husband
| had been seen with a musket and
had been heard to threaten to take her life,
| and everything pointed to her as the VIC
| tim Her friend, and family thought she
had been killed and gave her up for dead
and just as the case seemed to he made out
and positive conclusion reached that she
was dead, regardless OF the evidence III the
case, she turned up alive and we'll at Da-
| rien The circumstantiai evidence in that
case was strong enough to have hanged the
man with whom So was last seen, but her
| appearance saved him from arrest.
NOT KILLED WITH AN AK.
Subsequent to this it was reported that a
white women and a negro man were seen
walking down the road toward the spot
where the body was found, and they were
| traced to within a mile of that spot, but
| they could be followed no further. The
white woman mad been seen around Isle of
| Hope for several days and had slept in the
house of Diana Thompson, negroes One
| morning she started down the road with
| the negro, and neither of them had been seen
after they were met by one of the neigh
bors, about mile from the thicket that
held the body. After this report
was circulated a black straw hat with
red feather in it, shawl and
an ak were found in the thicket, and an in
vestigation followed Some gentlemen
started out to discover whether the two who
walked down the road together were the
murderer and his victim, and while carry
ing on this investigation they stumbled
| upon the second remarkable circumstantial
case. The AK they found to be in no wise
connected with the case. They learned
that two boys started out to cut wood, and
coming across the body they became
| frightened, dropped the ak and ran. This
relieved the case of an embarrassing feature,
for had the ak been proved to be the deadly
weapon used, what was the meaning of the
broken muskets
THE HAT AND SHAWL IDENTIFIED.
Having disposed of this question the gem
| tlemen took the hat and shawl and pro-
ceeded on their search. At length they dis
covered that the white woman who was seen
on the road with the negro was none other
| than fallen woman who was known as
| qTl6 N 81 Ia w "a bOnGn nf
i'll fame in Savannah One Of the people
who had seen them, however, was a negro
named Edmund Jones, and when a visit was
paid to his house it was learned that he was
then in his boat on the river. Being in
| formed at Just exactly what point he could
be found the gentlemen went down
| to Isle of Hope river and hailed
he was called he began to row across. The
hat and shawl were laid upon the ground,
| out of his sight, and the party went down
| to the bank to meet him After hearing
| his description of the two who were then
suspected a shrewd detective trick was
played upon him Without telling him to
| follow them the gentlemen turned and
walked slowly up the bank. Jones naturally
! followed and they led him directly by the
hat and shawl, but without calling his at
| tention to them When he saw them he
stopped and exclaimed
''Why, know that ha5 and shawl. Where
did they come fromm
"Are you sure that you know themr he
was asked
Yes | have see them hundred times.
| They belong to Annie Lee who lived on
Pigeon Island with Clarence Love- I'll
swear they were hers, and Capt. Annie can
| identify them.
THE OWNER OF THE MUsKET NAMED.
Capt Annie is Mrs. Adams, who lives on
Pigeon Island, and SO the inquisitors went
to the island to learn what they could from
| her When she was asked if she had ever
seen the hat and shawl SIZE replied she had,
and often. They were worn by Annie Lee
while she lived on the island. Capt Annie
was asked for further particulars regard
| ing Annie Lee, and she made quite long
statement about her and her cousin Clarence
Love. Among Other things she was asked
if they ever quarrslled, and she said that
they had, and that Love had threatened
| to kill his cousin il She ever left him, which
she had talked of doing.
Did he have gunT' she was asked.
YES she replied, IAN old musket."
did you ever see itgN
eyes, and | could identify it."
"HowF
1.-THE end of the barrel was bent up and
there was a w scratched upon the stock"
"On which side of the stockm
She thought for while as if trying to
decide which was the left and which the
right side of gun, and then said: ''Well,
when YOU raised the gun TO shoot the w is
on the next to your cheek
That is perfect description of the gun
found by the body. There is a CIV" on the
stock ON the side indicated, and the barrel
| is bent upward.
"What has become of Love and his
cousin asked Capt. Annie's questioners.
II don't know, she replied Annie Lee
left here and has not been heard from since
Love left about the same time, and the
strangest part of it all is that he had grow
ing crops in the field and he let them 60 tc
ruin"
ANNIE LEE ALIVE.
The evidence in the case seemed to settle
the identity of the parties beyond dispute
and the searchers gave up the investigation
there to take it up at another point A few
days after this Clarence Love came to
Savannah and was seen by some of his
acquaintance with whom he talked One
of them told him that it was reported at
Isle of Hope that he was connected with the
mystery and asked him why he did not pub
lish card in the MORNING NEWS denying
that he had anything to do with
it and stating where he could be
found He replied that he did not
care what people said. He left the city and
nothing has since been heard from him.
Taking it all together there seemed to lie
| but one conclusion that could possibly be